“At some point, Ukraine will sign a ceasefire agreement; at some point, hopefully, a peace treaty with Russia. Then it may ​be that part of Ukraine’s territory is no longer Ukrainian,” Merz ​told students at the Carolus-Magnus-Gymnasium in Marsberg, a town in ⁠North Rhine-Westphalia, on Monday.

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      Scholz SPD was against sending Taurus. The Greens and Liberals were openly calling for more aid and were also part of the governing coalition. So the opposition leader Merz was hitting the government in a weak spot.